St Andrew's Free Church, 7, 8 Pier Place, Newhaven, Edinburgh

The building comprises a former hall, originally St Andrew's Free Church, constructed in 1852 by James Anderson Hamilton, and subsequently recast and enlarged in 1882/3 by Wallace & Flockhart. It is now a recreation centre, and includes converted residential elements. The main church section (8 Pier Place) is a five-bay Gothic T-plan building with a steeple tower located at the angle where the arms of the 'T' meet. Attached to the right are two storeys of former halls (now 9 and 10 Pier Place), and to the left a two-storey former organ house (now 7 Pier Place).

The church itself is built of squared and snecked sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. It features a coped base course, chamfered arises, and raised stone skews. The projecting transept has symmetrical, pointed-arch windows with stone tracery and hoodmoulds depicting maritime carvings, including a sailing boat, rope, anchor, and various sea creatures. Above this is a bowed triangular window with rose tracery. Pointed-arch windows with geometric tracery are found in the bays flanking the steeple tower. A blind trefoil is inset above the window on the left, and a bipartite gabled dormer is set into the roof above the window on the right. The steeple tower, dating from 1882/3, is constructed of coursed sandstone ashlar and features a pointed arch doorway with a replacement timber and plate glass door, and four single windows above. Further up, it has gabled buttressing topped with octagonal gabled pinnacles, tall lucarne belfry windows, and a hexagonal spire. Leaded and stained-glass windows are incorporated throughout. The interior was recast and converted into a climbing centre in 1982.

The former organ house at 7 Pier Place has a boarded timber door with a plate glass fanlight, a round-arched moulded surround with a projecting hoodmould and stops, and an enlarged single window above with stone margins. A chamfered slit is in the apex of the gable.

The former halls at 9 and 10 Pier Place are built in squared and snecked red sandstone with polished dressings, and feature trefoil tracery and gablets breaking the eaves. Two round-arched doorways with timber doors are found on the left, with a main entrance featuring a replacement timber door and a six-light segmental fanlight above. A door to the outer left provides pend access to the rear. A tripartite gabled window sits above the main entrance. Bipartite windows on the ground floor have Tudor-arch hoodmoulds with maritime carving at the stops; the geometric tracery within these windows has been filled in. Later dormer window additions have been made.

All components are covered by a grey slate roof in diminishing courses.